Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Convocation met to elect a Chancellor. The Chancellorship, an honorary position of great dignity, became vacant on the death of Lord Curzon (TIME, Mar. 30). It was offered to Lord Milner, but he died before he could be installed (TIME, May 25). It was then decided to hold an election; and it appeared likely that the Earl of Oxford and Asquith-Premier H. H. Asquith, possibly the most distinguished of living Oxonians-would be chosen...
...treatments have been taken over by the "regular school of medicine" (Allopathy), it is likewise the only one of the medical cults which receives any considerable recognition from the Allopaths. The height of its vogue is largely passed. Last week the members of the American Institute of Homeopathy met in Manhattan and made plans to raise $20,000,000 to build a college and hospital there...
...daring-Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan, and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Leif Dietrichsen and Mechanics Omdahl and Feucht-were also aboard the collier, together with members of the Norwegian Aero Club's relief expedition. When the ship reached the Skagerrak narrows north of Denmark, the party was to be met by seaplanes which would convoy them to Horten and thence to the "honor pier," royalty's landing place...
Kiwanis. 5,000 representatives of 94,000 members in the U. S. and Canada, met in St. Paul, paraded, dined, elected one John H. Moss* their chief officer, were electrified by a speech containing such statements as "The men who shout for more business in government do not realize the limitations of a democratic government. . . . Business in government would ignore the social duties of the government," discussed the memorial to Warren G. Harding, onetime Kiwanian, which has been designed by a Kiwanian architect, built by a Kiwanian construction company, erected with Kiwanian money in Vancouver, B. C. With due respect...
...associated with what I think was representative social America when I was there, but I have never met in the course of my travels in America with the circumstances shown in American films as indicative of social life. It is a fact that, in almost savage countries, American films which are supposed to represent American social life are used in the most evil way by Bolsheviks and other propagandists. I found this true even in India, where I have heard it said in the bazaars: 'Is this the way the sahibs live when they are at home...